To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTime may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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